Greetings, uNEARverse!
This forum post includes many links to relevant updates from around the NEAR ecosystem.
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February was a game-changing month for NEAR and the whole blockchain / crypto ecosystem. I can’t believe it has been over a month since this community update . Going forward, I’ll make sure to do these on a weekly basis to summarize and help connect dots.
Recently, @tiffanygyj and @yifang started posting weekly updates from the perspective of NEAR Collective, and we hope others in the community give additional insights.
This is the Ecosystem Overview and Notable Metrics for the week of Feb 14 - Feb 21.
Ecosystem Scoreboard
Stats on Feb 22 [image]
Stats on Feb 16 [image]
Monthly Active Developer(Internal): 561 → 584 (+4.1%)
Monthly Active Developer(Internal) is defined as all users who used CLI at least once in the past month, since CLI is the center tool for development on NEAR at the moment.
Monthly Active Developer(External): 93 → 115 (+23.66%)
Monthly Active Developer(External) is def…
Time: Feb 21 - Feb 28
NEAR Explorer Stats
NEAR Ecosystem Scoreboard
Work in progress
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Increase curve and trend starting from February from 423 to 706, a 67% monthly increase.
Daily Active D…
You can see a list of posts tagged as “weekly updates” here:http://gov.near.org/tag/weekly-updates
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8 shards can now produce 5x TPS of a single shard! It is not exactly linear sharding, but quite close Bridge
We fixed a serious overflow bug in rust-ethash that was causing failures;
C…
https://near.org/openbrand
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Yadira Blocker (as new Marketing Events Lead.)
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More Details On Our Efforts This Week (Note: Not Prioritized)
1.) Brand Updates
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The Leadership team recently shared an extensive 2021 Go-To-Market Strategy deck at the All Hands and this deck is what we’ve been using to navigate our m…
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[Feb 19 Marketing Update]
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Marketing Town Hall on March 2nd to go deeper into strategy, activities, and planning for 2021.
Branding Efforts
Open Brand .
Here’s some sou…
Here’s a copy of the deck
Coordination repository of Near Community
https://t.me/socialtokens
DAOcademy launched to fund educat…
@shreyas * @jlwaugh * @nima
Priorities (Update every Monday)
Progress and blockers (Update every Thursday)
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SputnikDAO * @jlwaugh
~40 proposals have been submitted to SputnikDAO.
NEAR Grants Pilot Program
The NEAR Grants Program is live! In the first half of 2021, the NEAR Grants Pilot Program will award USD 1 million in grants funding and resources to promising teams whose work will foster and expand NEAR’s technology and …
@shreyas * @jlwaugh * @nima
Priorities (Update every Monday)
Progress and blockers (Update every Thursday)
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Highlights
ETHDenver.SputnikDAO.near @jlwaugh
We have introduced DAOs on NEAR at ETHDenver to emphasize our commitment to decentralization and on-chain governance. 127 Proposals were summited by around a hundred users, and a total of 3000N has been distributed through this initiative.
Paras
During the Paras Lunar…
@shreyas * @jlwaugh * @nima
Priorities (Update every Monday)
Progress and blockers (Update every Thursday)
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Highlights
Cyberpunk Guild @nima
NEAR Hong Kong
NEAR Hong Kong has been activated! The team is taking an initiative to build a resource centre that brings together updates and information related to NEAR. Check out the NEAR Portal website and submit your content request here .
@shreyas @jlwaugh @nima @chloe @starpause
Priorities (Update every Monday)
Progress and blockers (Update every Thursday)
The space for DevRel
Berry Pickers are a tactical, cross-team squad that “cherry picks” certain tasks deemed as the best next steps to improve partner / developer experience, and move the technology forward. Think token standards, contract upgrade paths, runtime features, best practices, and more!
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group:
This week, we were working on fixing the existing deployments, creating the roadmap for Q1 and participating in multiple discussions, including the realistic bridge protocol change and storage costs update .
Next week, we are planning to finalise a step-by-step tutorial on using the bridge with ERC-20, updating our maintenance suite (knowledge bases, procedures), continuing working on bridge 2.0 and doing some clean ups in the repository.
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The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group:
This week, we have fixed Ropsten and Rinkeby deployments, introduced monitoring dashboard, fixed issues (#475 , FE#80 ), were cleaning the issues in the repos, guided the NFT standard discussion.
Next week, we are planning to finalise a step-by-step tutorial on using the bridge with ERC-20, continuing working on bridge 2.0, prepare the upgradability discussion for the forum and finishing the clean ups in the repository.
Find the full meeti…
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group:
This week, we delivered step-by-step CLI guide and frontend with working transfers to NEAR and back. We also solved a bug with Ropsten deployment , were working on #467 and #462 , were cleaning the issues in the repos, and were developing the bridge 2.0.
Next week, we are planning to release an upgradability & governance plan to the forum, continuing working on bridge 2.0, work on the CI and testing, and finishing the clean ups in the repos…
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group:
This week, we finalised the work on step-by-step CLI guide , released upgradability and governance plan , enhanced FE with more user-friendly transfer amounts , merged multiple PRs(#467 , #462 , #26 , #27 ) were cleaning the issues in the repos, working on testing and CI, and were developing the bridge 2.0.
Next week, we are planning merge CLI guide into core repos, update the docs how to use the bridge, continuing working on bridge 2.0, work on…
The weekly Friday update from the Bridge Working Group:
This week, we worked on a bunch of upgradability & testing related topics (eth-connector , token-connector ), fixed some bugs in the FE (#113 , #102 ), refactored FE code to use the library , were cleaning the issues in the repos, set the alerts, and were developing the bridge 2.0.
Next week, we are planning merge CLI guide into core repo, update the docs how to use the bridge, test the upgrades of the bridge and finish the clean-up in the rep…
The weekly Friday update from the EVM Working Group:
This week, we recorded two short EVM tutorial videos, recruited more developers, and took significant architectural decisions that will enable us to iterate faster and deliver the EVM sooner.
Next week, we are planning to begin implementing nETH as the base token, begin developing a new benchmarking tool, and continue work on the architectural changes and EVM upgrade begun this week.
Find the full meeting notes on GitHub , and the video reco…
The weekly Friday update from the EVM Working Group:
This week, we hired and onboarded an additional developer, made great progress on a new EVM stress-testing tool, got started on implementing nETH as the base token, and continued work on the architectural changes and EVM upgrade begun last week.
Next week, we are planning to publish an EVM protocol upgrade proposal, work on prototypes for the nETH contract and the EVM stress-testing tool, and validate the planned architectural EVM changes us…
The weekly Friday update from the EVM Working Group:
This week, we made good progress on the ETH connector, finished contract runtime API additions to support the EVM contract, upgraded the EVM contract to the latest upstream VM version, and continued work on the EVM Bully stress-testing tool.
Next week, we are planning to test the ETH connector prototype, finish a first prototype of the EVM Bully stress-testing tool, and validate the revamped EVM architecture using the Balancer and/or Anemone…
The weekly Friday update from the EVM Working Group:
This week, we posted the EVM rollout plan for discussion, began testing the ETH connector prototype on TestNet, overcame blockers in the design of the EVM Bully stress-testing tool, and coordinated with the SputnikVM team regarding Berlin HF plans.
Next week, we are planning to begin integrating the ETH connector with the EVM contract, begin ingesting the Eth1 Goerli testnet through the EVM Bully stress-testing tool, and validate the revampe…
https://thegraph.com/blog/multiblockchain-support
NEAR is the network for a world reimagined. Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, millions are empowered to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, and community are being reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive...
NEAR is the network for a world reimagined. Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, millions are empowered to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, and community are being reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive...
https://nearguilds.com/?post_type=post&p=1153
NEAR is the network for a world reimagined. Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, millions are empowered to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, and community are being reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive...
NEAR is the network for a world reimagined. Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, millions are empowered to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, and community are being reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive...
Our community has been really busy lately! We are in the process of carefully revamping the processes of guild formation, discovery, and coordination. Below are highlights from particularly active communities in our ecosystem. For a more comprehensive look at NEAR Guilds , check out posts tagged with “guild-report” on the forum .
Berry Berry Hot
NEAR is the network for a world reimagined. Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, millions are empowered to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, and community are being reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive...
NEAR is the network for a world reimagined. Through simple, secure, and scalable technology, millions are empowered to invent and explore new experiences. Business, creativity, and community are being reimagined for a more sustainable and inclusive...
https://createbase.community/2021/02/25/createbase-dao-round-1
https://createbase.community/2021/02/15/createbase-community-call-summary-8
https://createbase.community/2021/02/15/createbase-community-call-summary-7
https://createbase.community/2021/02/14/how-to-apply-for-funding-with-createbase
https://nearguilds.com/?post_type=post&p=1196
https://nearguilds.com/?post_type=post&p=1205
https://nearguilds.com/?post_type=post&p=1255
https://nearguilds.com/?post_type=post&p=1272
https://nearguilds.com/?post_type=post&p=1224
http://gov.near.org/t/vital-point-ai-january-february-2021-report/790
https://openshards.io/#stakeit-or-breakit
http://gov.near.org/t/near-swag-2-0-updates-objectives/833
Please don’t hesitate to give updates on what you’re doing, as it relates to the NEAR ecosystem. Ask questions. Tell us about ideas or specific projects and goals. Share thoughts and feelings. Your feedback is much appreciated!
